For the record, I never called my work "street literature" and I never will. When I began to publish ground breaking contemporary novels with Flyy Girl in 1993, and Capital City in 1994, I called them "urban classics." They were "urban" because they dealt with people of color in the inner-city or "urban" population areas. They were "classics" because I considered myself one of the first to start the work of a new era. But now, after sixteen years and sixteen novels in the African-American adult urban fiction game, I feel like the man who created the monster Frankenstein. Things have gotten way out of hand. So it's now time to put up my pen and move on to something new, until the readership is ready to develop a liking for fresh material on other subjects.

Resources

Black Expressions Book Club
Urban Fiction/Street Literature books are included in the Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies, and Urban Fiction sections.

Streetfiction.org
An excellent source of information on Urban Fiction/Streetlit books. This site has bibliographies of numerous authors as well as information on new books, interviews and books reviews.

Bestseller Lists

There are no definitive, well-established sources that can be used to determine what are the bestselling Urban Fiction/Street Lit books as there are for general Fiction books. The sources shown below list bestsellers for African-American Fiction, in general, but include books considered as Urban Fiction or Street Lit. While these lists are not as comprehensive as the New York Times or Publishers Weekly bestsellers lists, they are helpful for developing an Urban Fiction/Street Lit collection for a public library.

Street Fiction: Hip Hop, Street Lit, and Urban Fiction Book Reviews and Author Interviews
Street Fiction is dedicated to reviewing street fiction, also known as urban fiction, street lit, or gangsta fiction. One of the fastest growing genres, these books expose the reader to drugs, violence, sex and and the gritty realities of street life in urban America. Daniel Marcou, creator of this web site, is a corrections librarian, creative writing instructor, and author.

R.A.W. SISTAZ Book Reviews
There are reviews of new books and you can "search archives" for books already released.